With SpaceX Starship, Japan's ispace provides ride-share to the moon
08/07/2026 07:50
With SpaceX Starship, Japan's ispace provides ride-share to the moon TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) - Japanese moon transport company ispace 9348.T said on Wednesday it would start a new lower-cost lunar cargo business using the Starship heavy rocket and moon lander developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX SPCX.O.
Tokyo-based ispace has bought 500 kg (1102 lb) of capacity on a Starship that would land on the moon as soon as 2030 and will build a lunar surface vehicle that can host payloads from worldwide clients sharing their ride on Starship to the moon, it said.
(Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Sonali Paul)
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